Governor Deval Patrick’€™s embattled transportation secretary, Jeffrey B. Mullan, said he will step down by year’€™s end for personal reasons, a decision he said he conveyed to the administration in May.

GDC Europe has revealed a new batch of lectures for the upcoming August show, featuring industry legend Mark Cerny on the future of the industry, Age of Empires and Titan Quest veteran Brian Sullivan on level design, and Battlestar Galactica Online developer Bigpoint on handling large IP.

Recent statistics have shown that many full-time workers who are considering campus-based or online education are not aware that their employers might be able to help them pay for tuition costs.

Engineers loaded 32 tons of steel plating onto an aluminum bridge erected in the parking lot of an industrial complex, just a bungee jump away from the throngs eating deep-fried Twinkies and riding roller coasters at the San Diego County Fair.

Will Moore decided to put his summer vacation to good use this year. He got a job.

When he’s not repeatedly – €”and incorrectly €”- blaming President Obama for making the economic recession “worse” and “last longer,” GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is trumpeting his own job-creating bona fides. He explains that the jobless rate in Massachusetts, where he served as governor from 2003 to 2007, declined by nearly one percent during […]

Jim McInerny hopes every day at work will be like “The Gong Show.” But unlike the iconic 1970s TV talent show, swinging the mallet does not mean rejection at VMTurbo, a high-tech start-up company based in Waltham and Valhalla, N.Y. It signifies that a potential client has agreed to a Web software demo.

Hiring ground to a halt last month, and the nation’€™s unemployment rate rose to its highest level this year, adding to the deep uncertainty about the pace of the nation’€™s economic recovery.

Seventy-five job applications. Forty cover letters. Twelve interviews. Zero job offers.

Republican pundits are aghast over the staggering deficit and scold us to deal with the budget like a sensible ordinary family: cut household expenses. But what if the well-heeled son in the household opts out of contributing to the family income? America’s flush son is the corporate structure and its network of affluent allies.

Parents have long differed on whether children should be paid for doing household chores. Some say tying kids’€™ allowances to housework is good training for entering the workforce. But others say children should do chores for free, reserving allowances as a tool for teaching money management.

A Middleborough woman who recently graduated from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science has been selected to represent the state at the 2012 Miss America Pageant.